Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon